David Mamet | truth
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David Mamet | society
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
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David Mamet | religion
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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David Mamet | peace
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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David Mamet | peace
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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David Mamet | movies
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it’s still evolving in different ways.
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David Mamet | morning
There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead.
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